Parrot
I played around with parrot today. For those of you that don't know what parrot is, it's the virtual machine that perl6 will use. It's very very cool stuff. Doesn't have the higher level ops that perl5 does, but the op dispatch is so fast (I'm talking blow JVM away fast) that it shouldn't matter. Futher more, PMCs will let us implement things like hashes and arrays, plus we can do stuff like implement python VM core types with it. Most things in python bytecode just play around with pythonObjects, which can be strings, arrays, objects or anything like that. PMCs are even more abstracted than that, we can implement all those things, and pythonObjects with PMCs.
I made stirfry today, but the beef I got wasn't very good. aww well, tomorrow I'm going to mongolian BBQ!